 | 1830 - 492 pages
...fields we see The footstep of the Deity ! The sun proclaims him through the day, The moon when day light fades away ; The very darkness smiles to wear The stars, that show that God is there. On moonlight seas soft gleams the sky ; And, God is with us, waves reply. Winds... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 642 pages
...The great and universal Lord ; The sun proclaims him through the day, The moon when daylight steals away ; The very darkness smiles to wear The stars,...waves reply. Winds breathe — from God's abode they corne; Storms louder own God is their home: And thunders, with yet louder call, Shout God is mightiest... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...an omniscient and omnipresent God. In the simple and expressive language of our rural poet, Clare, " The sun proclaims Him through the day, The moon when...The very darkness smiles to wear The stars that show that God is there ; On moonlight seas soft gleams the sky, And, God is with us, waves reply. Winds... | |
 | English essays - 1922 - 278 pages
...poetry is a gesture of impulsive tenderness. It has a curious suddenness, almost a catch in the voice. The very darkness smiles to wear The stars that show us God is there. We find, too, a still more authentic mark of the tenderness of impulsive love in his way of seeing... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - English prose literature - 1924 - 578 pages
...Smart immured in an asylum — for its fitful but unmistakable gleam plays over all Clare's work : The very darkness smiles to wear The stars that show us God is there. . . . It is a perception, a knowledge, a mode of understanding, which, it seems, Christ himself brought... | |
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... indeed. For when we come to define as narrowly as we can the distinctive, compelling quality of his emotion, we find that in addition to tenderness we need the word impulsive. Clare's most beautiful poetry is a gesture of impulsive tenderness. It... 